Plate 20Map of British Empire, 1886. At the peak of empire, this map por trays Britain’s various colonies in pink and the empire as a goddessseated on a world throne. Native peoples, exoticized and eroticized, pay tribute. The map is an example of aesthetic Orientalism (see pp. 439–441).Color Insert.indd 16 4/23/2018 11:06:26 AM